"Michigan's Supreme Problem" - The law plainly tilts against the
University of Michigan's race-conscious admissions policy, says
Terry Eastland in both the Dallas Morning News and the Weekly
Standard, December 2002

Justices Won't Review Affirmative Action
Case - A Washington
Post article about the Supreme Court's decision not to review
an appeals court decision that upheld the use of race as an admissions
factor at the University of Washington law school - May 30, 2001

"A Better Path to Diversity" - opinion column by the editorial
staff of the Christian Science Monitor, saying that the post-Proposition
209 minority enrollment in the university of California system
is up since 1997 - April 11, 2000

"Jeb Bush's College Try" - April 17, 2000 - "These are
the problems involved in the social engineering of 'diversity,'
as opposed to maintaining standards and spending whatever it
costs to help all students prepare to meet them." - U.S.
News and World Report opinion column by John Leo

"The 'New Segregationism'" - opinion column by Tony Snow - "Unfortunately,
the message hasn't filtered into educational and governmental
offices. Today, in cathedrals of learning and citadels of power,
our leaders unwittingly mimic their Deep South predecessors.
They spend their days conjuring up scapegoats so they won't have
to confess that the old ways (such as quotas, welfare and race
norming) are an indefensible failure. " - August 23, 1999

From the 105th Congress:
"The Civil Rights Act of 1997" - "A bill to provide
for equal protection of the law and to prohibit discrimination
and preferential treatment on the basis of race, color, national
origin, or sex in Federal actions, and for other purposes."
The legislation was not approved by Congress.

Link to text and
status of House version, H.R.
1909 (sponsored by Representative Charles Canady (R-FL).

Proposition 209 -- The California ballot initiative that passed
in 1996, to "eliminate state and local government affirmative
action programs in the areas of public employment, public education,
and public contracting to the extent these programs involve 'preferential
treatment' based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national
origin"

Hopwood v. State of Texas -- Materials relating to a case involving
student admissions. With the lower court ruling against racial
preferences, the U.S. Supreme Court denied to hear the case --
letting the lower court's position stand.

Center for Equal Opportunity (Among other things, this site allows
you to determine the probability of acceptance into three universities
based on race and other characteristics) "Perversive Preferences:
Interactive 'Predictors'"

"Affirmative
Reaction" - transcript of August 18, 1997 NewsHour -
U.C. Berkeley opens its doors to 270 new law school students
this year. Only one of them is African American. Is this proof
that California's ban on affirmative action hurts diversity?
After this background report by Spencer Michels, Elizabeth Farnsworth
leads a discussion.

Adversity.net -
A site created "for victims of preferential treatment."
Lots of links.

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